The British jury placed Donatan and Cleo last, yet voters from the UK placed
them first

Eurovision voters from the United Kingdom awarded an eye-catching performance from Poland's Donatan and Cleo first place in Saturday's song contest, despite the official UK jury placing the Polish entrants last.

The duo - singing "My Słowianie", or "We Are Slavic" in English - won an adulatory reception from the crowd in Copenhagen, perhaps because of the provocative and revealing outfits of their backing singers.

As Donatan and Cleo belted out lyrics such as "shaking what your mama gave you", the dancers were seen suggestively miming domestic chores. These included doing the laundry and churning butter.

The UK jury, evidently unmoved by this display, placed the Poles in last place, with an average ranking of 25. The UK public, however, couldn't have felt more differently about Donatan and Cleo's performance, selecting the Polish act as their favourite.

Adding together Poland's Europe-wide total of tele-votes, made by the viewing public across the continent via phone and app, Donatan and Cleo would have received 162 points. This would have placed them in the top five, a stark contrast to the 62 votes they eventually received overall, once the judges' votes were taken into account.

Eurovision's voting system has long been a source of controversy. The process is widely considered to be politically influenced, with countries forming cliques and "voting blocs" to favour nations which are longstanding allies or neighbours.

However, in 2009 a new system was introduced in an attempt to make voting fairer: each nation's scores are now calculated by combining the votes of televoters and those of a jury of music professionals.

This year's contest was won by Conchita Wurst, Austria's bearded drag queen.